Location : swampy area in the power line easement between Mt Petrie Rd and Prout Rd (Southern part)
Common name: Woolly frogmouth
Binomial name : Philydrum lanuginosum
Mangroves to Mountains describes it well:
"Fleshy leaved plant to 120cm on edges of ponds and still shallow water. Flowers on spikes to 60cm, covered in white woolly hairs."
I have been aware of this plant in the marshy low spot but this is the first time I have seen it in flower. The plant looks a bit like an iris but it has long hairy flower spikes and flowers which, with some imagination, look like the mouth of a gaping frog. Thus the delightful common name of woolly frogmouth. It is also recorded as a good frog plant so I think I will grow some clumps in an old bath-tub.
Seasons greetings from both of us and our resident reindeer "Woody"
- happy gardening next year and may the rain come regularly!
